Smoke DZA – Fish Tank / JFK (produced by Lee Bannon).

On both songs from DZA’s new tape, Bannon uses the cooing baby noise from “Are You That Somebody?” He does it for the same reason Timbaland did it: there is no reason, it just works. What comes out are destructive trap bangers made by a producer who isn’t native to the trap but takes to it as naturally as his usual left field boom bap. ASAP Rocky should be blowing up his phone right now.

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Metal Lungies aka ML is a collaborative music blog that was established in a set of high school hallways in Bethesda, MD in early 2005. Since then, ML has grown to have writers based out of Los Angeles, Buffalo, Washington DC, Ottawa, and New York. While our core content is hip-hop, we are very much ADD around here, so don’t be surprised to see our musings related to food, sports, games, and about 28932 other topics.